Return of Lifeboat

The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat

A group of people are standing along the platform of a railway station in La Ciotat, waiting for a train. One is seen coming, at some distance, and ev

1897

Berlin: Symphony of a Great City

A day in the city of Berlin, which experienced an industrial boom in the 1920s, and still provides an insight into the living and working conditions a

1927

Grandma Despina

This scene is a part of the very first film shot produced by the Manaki Brothers. Despina, the Janaki and Milton Manaki's grandmother, was recorded we

1905

Human Apes from the Orient

The subject is two grotesque-looking human beings who are sitting on the deck of a ship. The two weird individuals sit cross-legged and do the bidding

1906

Girls Taking Time Checks

Almost 200 women file by a device on the wall from which they take their time checks. A man runs half-way across the screen at the end of the film.

1904

Panorama of Machine Co. Aisle

A camera on an overhead crane travels down a large, long aisle where men are shown working on large machinery on either side. Carts carrying equipment

1904

Testing Large Turbines, Westinghouse Co. Works

On the left of the screen, a small group of men lift the top off of what appears to be a turbine with a crane and continue to check the machine, tight

1904

Matisse

Between 1950 and 1955, Henri Langlois tried to produce, on behalf of the Cinémathèque française, several films devoted to great artists, with their co

1951

Butterfly Dance

A very graceful dance with voluminous draperies, by Annabelle Moore, well-known on the metropolitan stage.

1896

The Story of Petroleum

Reel 1, an oil field is located, drilled, brought in, and pumped. Shows the Garber Field in Oklahoma. Reel 2 shows how pipe is laid and cleaned. One s

1923

No Jardim

In a sunny open air setting with a background of high, deep foliage trees, and a white-walled storeyed house, an acrobat with light shirt and trousers

1896

La Palestine en 1896

Lumière's documents life in Palestine.

1897

Buffalo Bill's Wild West Parade

The film shows a parade down Fifth Avenue, New York. In the foreground many children, both black and white, can be seen following alongside the parade

1901

Boys Diving, Honolulu

In the background is a row of three-masted sailing ships, at anchor, their sales furled. In the foreground, a simple pier that's more like a yardarm j

1901

Landscape (for Manon)

A languid, beautifully shot collection of landscapes, edited into a whimsical and touching film.

1987

Railway Station

Kieslowski’s later film Dworzec (Station, 1980) portrays the atmosphere at Central Station in Warsaw after the rush hour.

1980

Danse japonaise, III : Gueichas en Jinrikcha

Women getting onto a rickshaw.

1902

Une scène d'hypnotisme II

A hypnotism scene from the Lumière Brothers.

1898

Radeau avec baigneurs

Young people dive into the sea by jumping off a manmade wooden raft, while a small boat loaded with passengers passes by.

1896

École de cavalerie de Saumur, le carrousel militaire: Changement de main

A military horseback riding event from 1897.

1897